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Nobel Prize for Peace Below find every winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from 1901 through 2011. For years not listed, no award was made.
- 1901
- Henri Dunant (Switzerland); Frederick Passy (France)
- 1902
- Elie Ducommun and Albert Gobat (Switzerland)
- 1903
- Sir William R. Cremer (U.K.)
- 1904
- Institut de Droit International (Belgium)
- 1905
- Bertha von Suttner (Austria)
- 1906
- Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.)
- 1907
- Ernesto T. Moneta (Italy) and Louis Renault (France)
- 1908
- Klas P. Arnoldson (Sweden) and Frederik Bajer (Denmark)
- 1909
- Auguste M. F. Beernaert (Belgium) and Baron Paul H. B. B. d'Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque (France)
- 1910
- Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Switzerland)
- 1911
- Tobias M. C. Asser (Holland) and Alfred H. Fried (Austria)
- 1912
- Elihu Root (U.S.)
- 1913
- Henri La Fontaine (Belgium)
- 1917
- International Red Cross
- 1919
- Woodrow Wilson (U.S.)
- 1920
- Léon Bourgeois (France)
- 1921
- Karl H. Branting (Sweden) and Christian L. Lange (Norway)
- 1922
- Fridtjof Nansen (Norway)
- 1925
- Sir Austen Chamberlain (U.K.) and Charles G. Dawes (U.S.)
- 1926
- Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany)
- 1927
- Ferdinand Buisson (France) and Ludwig Quidde (Germany)
- 1929
- Frank B. Kellogg (U.S.)
- 1930
- Lars Olaf Nathan Söderblom (Sweden)
- 1931
- Jane Addams and Nicholas M. Butler (U.S.)
- 1933
- Sir Norman Angell (U.K.)
- 1934
- Arthur Henderson (U.K.)
- 1935
- Karl von Ossietzky (Germany)
- 1936
- Carlos de S. Lamas (Argentina)
- 1937
- Lord Cecil of Chelwood (U.K.)
- 1938
- Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Switzerland)
- 1944
- International Red Cross
- 1945
- Cordell Hull (U.S.)
- 1946
- Emily G. Balch and John R. Mott (U.S.)
- 1947
- American Friends Service Committee (U.S.) and British Society of Friends' Service Council (U.K.)
- 1949
- Lord John Boyd Orr (Scotland)
- 1950
- Ralph J. Bunche (U.S.)
- 1951
- Léon Jouhaux (France)
- 1952
- Albert Schweitzer (French Equatorial Africa)
- 1953
- George C. Marshall (U.S.)
- 1954
- Office of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
- 1957
- Lester B. Pearson (Canada)
- 1958
- Rev. Dominique Georges Henri Pire (Belgium)
- 1959
- Philip John Noel-Baker (U.K.)
- 1960
- Albert John Luthuli (South Africa)
- 1961
- Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
- 1962
- Linus Pauling (U.S.)
- 1963
- Intl. Comm. of Red Cross; League of Red Cross Societies (both Geneva)
- 1964
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (U.S.)
- 1965
- UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
- 1968
- René Cassin (France)
- 1969
- International Labor Organization
- 1970
- Norman E. Borlaug (U.S.)
- 1971
- Willy Brandt (West Germany)
- 1973
- Henry A. Kissinger (U.S.); Le Duc Tho (North Vietnam)1
- 1974
- Eisaku Sato (Japan); Sean MacBride (Ireland)
- 1975
- Andrei D. Sakharov (U.S.S.R.)
- 1976
- Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams (both Northern Ireland)
- 1977
- Amnesty International
- 1978
- Menachem Begin (Israel) and Anwar el-Sadat (Egypt)
- 1979
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India)
- 1980
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Argentina)
- 1981
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- 1982
- Alva Myrdal (Sweden) and Alfonso García
Robles (Mexico)
- 1983
- Lech Walesa (Poland)
- 1984
- Bishop Desmond Tutu (South Africa)
- 1985
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1986
- Elie Wiesel (U.S.)
- 1987
- Oscar Arias Sánchez (Costa Rica)
- 1988
- U.N. Peacekeeping Forces
- 1989
- Dalai Lama (Tibet)
- 1990
- Mikhail S. Gorbachev (U.S.S.R.)
- 1991
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma)
- 1992
- Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala)
- 1993
- F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela (both South Africa)
- 1994
- Yasir Arafat (Palestine), Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin (both Israel)
- 1995
- Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (U.K.)
- 1996
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta (East Timor)
- 1997
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams (U.S.)
- 1998
- John Hume and David Trimble (Northern Ireland)
- 1999
- Doctors without Borders (France)
- 2000
- Kim Dae Jung (South Korea)
- 2001
- United Nations and Kofi Annan
- 2002
- Jimmy Carter (U.S.)
- 2003
- Shirin Ebadi (Iran)
- 2004
- Wangari Maathai (Kenya)
- 2005
- Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- 2006
- Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) and the Grameen Bank
- 2007
- Al Gore (U.S.) and United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Switzerland)
- 2008
- Martti Ahtisaari (Finland)
- 2009
- Barack Obama (U.S.)
- 2010
- Liu Xiaobo (China)
- 2011
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), and Tawakkul Karman (Yemen)
1. Le Duc Tho refused prize, charging that peace had not yet really been established in South Vietnam.
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